"Sometimes, after you have taken part in a seven, one or two-day retreat, you could feel that your level of practice had risen. That was because we had given our undivided attention to breaking through our level of practice. We knew that was the sole purpose of coming to a retreat here, so our levels were uplifted and our karma left behind."

-- Ching Hai

#Karma Quotes #Spiritual Quotes #Taken Quotes

“I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.”

Source : Edward Hirsch (2009). “Special Orders: Poems”, p.48, Knopf
“When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board.”
“I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid to stay in shape - jogging, work on the farm, driving the tractor. I'll never forget.”
“I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway.' She was like, 'That's not really possible because there is not that much Broadway. So I'll send you out on TV and stuff like that.'”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be reduced to the ordinary laws of physics. And that not on the ground that there is any "new force" or what not, directing the behavior of the single atoms within a living organism, but because the construction is different from anything we have yet tested in the physical laboratory.”
“In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'”
“The best ideas emerge when very different perspectives meet.”
“The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.”

Source : Basil Hume (2001). “Cardinal Hume: A Spiritual Companion : Reflections Through the Year”, Paraclete Press (MA)

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